A Long Return, also known by the title Largo Retorno in Spain, is a 1975 Spanish romantic film, directed by Pedro Lazaga. Plot A vibrant young college student, Anna (Lynne Frederick), catches eye of architect, David Ortega (Mark Burns), at an orchestra show. She quickly falls in love with him and begins to pursue him. Although David is initially hesitant, she eventually wins his love. The two become inseparable and eventually get married. Soon after their Venice honeymoon, Anna begins acting strange; experiencing sudden fatigue, grogginess, and memory loss (even forgetting her best friend). Eventually Anna is hospitalized and doctors diagnose her condition as lipomatosis of the nervous system, a rare and deadly disease that is quickly killing her. While in the hospital, with her husband by her bed side, Anna suddenly goes into a state of a coma. Doctors tell David that his wife has less than days to live and he desperately pleads with them for help of any kind. They inform him that Anna's only chance of survival is to put her in a state of perpetual deep cryogenic sedation, which would shut down her body (stopping the disease from spreading), freeze her in time, and prevent her from aging, until a cure can be found, in which event she would be taken out of sedation. With great optimism, David accepts and Anna is put in a state of cryogenic sedation. For forty agonizing and heart aching years, David remains faithful to Anna and waits for a cure to be found. Meanwhile, Anna's friends and family move on with their lives, even as going as far as wanting to pull the plug on her and bury her, as she remains sedated. A cure is finally found in 2014, and she is successfully taken out of sedation and fully cured. When Anna awakens she is kept at the hospital for observations. She repeatedly asks to see her husband, not knowing he is now middle aged and that she has been in sedation for the last forty years. The doctor denies her request. The ice is broken when her best friend, Irene (now well past her 60s), visits her and informs her of what has happened in the last forty years (such events like Anna's parents dying and the inevitable changes David has succumb to with age). When she is released from the hospital, Irene takes her to David,